Voila: here is the French version of my July 2007 Open Letter to the Independent Music Industry

Back in July 2007 I wrote a fairly long (but worthy;) essay called “Gerd Leonhard’s Open Letter to the Independent Music Industry: Music2.0 and the Future of Music is yours – if you can resist the temptation of becoming just another music cartel” which became quite a popular read for people in the music industry, around the world. Now, I have the great pleasure of sharing the French translation with you, below. This must have been a pretty tough job given that I am diving fairly deep into geek language territory in the English version, already – but it always amazes me what happens when you offer stuff in an open format – if it’s good, other people will continue and expand the work, and together, maybe something much larger can be created.

Lettre ouverte aux Independents: “Music 2.0 et le futur de la musique s’offrent à vous – à condition d’arrêter de copier les majors” was kindly translated by Christophe Soulard (owner of Mexican Stand-Off), in Paris / France, with some additional assistance by Sylvie Krstulovic, also in Paris. All is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to take it and spread it around!

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